Sentences with phrase «war on childhood»

«This clinical trial is an important step forward in identifying and understanding perhaps underused weapons in the war on childhood cancer,» said Dr. Robin Ganzert, American Humane Association's president and CEO.

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth pledged to outlaw the ads before 9 pm as part of a new war on childhood obesity.

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth commits to outlaw adverts before 9 pm as part of a war on childhood obesity

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One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

In an appearance on the BBC before the rally on Sunday, Stewart talked about his childhood as a «war baby» and how he experienced the world as «not good» before the U.K. joined the EU in 1973.

You can see it in your compass, victrola, protractor, feather quill, taxidermied pheasant, spiral - bound notebook, World War 2 - era flask, tortoise shell monocle and polaroid photo of your childhood sweetheart on holiday in New Delhi, all arranged just so on a Burberry tablecloth.

Similarly, Garrison Keillor («Companion» host, writing in the liner notes to the anniversary record album) comments that his own earliest memory of radio, from his childhood in Anoka, Minnesota, is «sitting on my uncle's lap, his arm around me, my head next to his, as a tiny band played, and a man in New York said it was true, the war was over.»

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

An army of wet nurses to fight the war on infant mortality, childhood obesity, diabetes, and breast cancer.

From his childhood in America, to his later years in Lebanon, Nemr recounts his life and touches on childhood, family, relationships, religion, war and the power of perspective.

On one hand, «Toy Story» had long since cornered the sincere ode - to - childhood - playthings approach, while the «Transformers» and «G.I. Joe» movies went the overkill route, all but obliterating the notion that those bombastic adventures could in any way relate to how kids use the related toy products, and treating them more like the afterthought tie - ins «Star Wars» and other films typically support.

Back on the big screen, she played the promiscuous teenager Dawn in John Boorman's childhood war drama Hope and Glory.

Set in America at a time in which Cold War paranoia and the Civil Rights injustices of the early 1960s have created an oppressive atmosphere for those on the margins of society, it's the story of a mute - since - childhood cleaner (Sally Hawkins) who falls for the amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) being experimented upon at the underground research facility where she works.

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

The film, based on the nonfiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, showcases the parts of Zamperini's life that took place both immediately before and during WWII — with a bit of childhood flashbacks thrown in for story purposes as well.

Set during the height of the Iraq War, David Packouz (Miles Teller), a struggling masseuse - cum - travelling carpet salesman, meets childhood bestie Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), an Iraq arms dealer who exploits the little - known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on private contracts on military arsenal — it's in the archival visuals of Iraq soldiers military gear paraded as visual merchandisers, that accompanies the aforementioned prologue, that has some genuinely startling financial statistics.

Ronan is as good as she always is — Macdonald has captured her at a very special time on the cusp between childhood and womanhood — and the bleak, very English - style war drama and teen romance aspects are both fine.

Set against the backdrop of a country divided, the story follows the four March sisters on their journey from childhood to adulthood while their father is away at war.

However, for the rest of the show, the guys revert back to their childhood selves and reflect on their reactions to the first teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams» Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

In The Director and the Jedi, by filmmaker Anthony Wonke, he places the spotlight on director Rian Johnson, and his process as a director new to the franchise, as Johnson has been a fan of the film since childhood, and sets out to make the most powerful Star Wars movie he can.

In the world of publicity clichés, every new Star Wars director has been a fan since childhood and had fun each day on the set.

Child soldier turned hip - hop artist Emmanuel Jal talks about war in South Sudan and his tragic childhood on Russia Today when, out of the blue, the FOX Engine and MGSV appear.

At a climactic concert at a party, rows of listeners can be seen gliding off in separate directions as if on separate mind journeys, and in a much earlier surreal sequence featuring newsreel war footage in a cafe, the narrator, reading a letter, can be seen rising with his chair like a film director seated on a crane, all the way to the top of the room, where he encounters his own childhood self running a projector — an image that might be traced, like much else, to one of Proust's extended descriptive passages.

The details: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler confront Star Wars head - on with a comedy about two adult sisters who are devastated to learn that their parents are selling their childhood home.

There are so many aspects to Turing's story: his impact on ending the war, how society treats true genius, his isolated childhood and final years, the extreme lack of civil rights for homosexuals of the time, and how his work on «Christopher» led to the development of computers.

I recently had a chance to chat one - on - one with the talkative filmmaker, about his childhood Star Wars bed sheets, his experience and difficulties with reimagining popular big screen properties, and why he would likely never direct a sequel to any of his works.

Bobby Fischer Against the World (Director: Liz Garbus)-- The drama of late chess - master Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable, as he careened from troubled childhood, to World Champion and Cold War icon, to a fugitive on the run.

British writer - director John Boorman has been making films since the 1960s, and has said that Queen and Country — a sequel to his autobiographical World War II - era story of childhood, Hope and Glory (1987)-- which opened on Friday, will be his last.

The ambitious early - childhood program launched in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty is going through dramatic — and sometimes painful — changes, while continuing to pursue its mission.

In traditional education, however, there's a nationwide war raging over accountability, with many states seeking ways to rate not only teachers and schools, but also teacher preparation and early childhood programs, based on quantifiable outcomes.

The Problem of Head Start Nowhere is resistance to structured, curriculum - based, standards - and - assessment - driven early education clearer than in the big, iconic, federal early - childhood program known as Head Start, a legacy of Lyndon Johnson's mid-1960s declaration of war on poverty.

This instalment touches on war artists, war propaganda, the atrocities of war, the scourge of childhood diseases, and the loss of art works to richer countries.

«In reverse chronological order, Cline - Ransome's pithy, lyrical lines lay out the prolific achievements of Harriet Tubman, from her campaign for women's suffrage to her role as a spy during the civil war to her iconic work as a conductor on the underground railroad, all the way back to her childhood.

After detailing his childhood and home life, Sís goes on to explore his adoration for flight, his occupational history, contributions to war efforts, travels around the world, writings and so much more.

As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the deWar wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dewar veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.

On the fortieth anniversary of the Arab - Israeli Six Day War (1967 - 1971), Ibtisam Barakat writes a compelling memoir of her young childhood during the war that shows the value and beauty of ordinary liWar (1967 - 1971), Ibtisam Barakat writes a compelling memoir of her young childhood during the war that shows the value and beauty of ordinary liwar that shows the value and beauty of ordinary life.

The elderly British writer William H. Hudson was laid up for six weeks in a London hospital at the beginning of World War I when, to his astonishment, he suddenly remembered in photographic detail his entire childhood growing up on the pampas of Argentina in the mid-19th century.

My controllers turned into blasters which, after switching from semi-automatic to automatic, made me giddy inside as I pulled the trigger on the controllers and the glorious haptic feedback response coalesced into a beautiful realization that I was about to play out a childhood dream... please Disney, just slap some Star Wars skins on this!

Star Wars was a major influence on my childhood and the arrival of X-Wing took me back to those days, recreating those iconic film moments, balancing shields and dodging TIEs.

We also touch base on how it was for him as a musician early in his career, and how he managed to hold on to a Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back vinyl from his childhood, then to have the chance to have John Williams sign it for him decades later.

Collages from her 2001 - 2002 series, «Boys» Art,» will also be on display alongside copies of her son's childhood superhero and war drawings.

Pino Pascali was born in Bari on 19/10/35, his father a police officer was transferred with his family to Tirana in Albania between1940 - 41, the war, seen from close was one of the strongest impressions of his childhood.

Early in her career, while working in Los Angeles, she primarily concentrated on mass media imagery, reproducing scenes of war, violence, and disaster borrowed from television and newspapers that reflected both the tumultuous political moment of the 1960s as well as her childhood experiences in war - torn Europe.

Allison Smith, who has an eye on both history and the politics of identity, was brought up in Virginia, where she spent a fair amount of her childhood visiting living - history exhibitions and period houses, and witnessing Civil War reenactments.

With a childhood surrounding a love of comic books, video games and pop culture, Doyle loves to pick out the locations and places made famous by films as epic as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and Blade Runner — recreating them through bold and colourful illustrations; 10 of which will be on show and available as limited edition prints during a special «collectors preview» of the show next month.

German painter Moritz is going full - on cold war for her memories of her East German childhood in her first solo show at Pillar Corrias.

These forms open up a dialogue between traditional African art and the commentary on Mabunda's own childhood experience of war.

A tour of the show's paintings should include the Fine Art Society, where you'll find three canvases by Walter Sickert — most outstandingly the war - themed 1914 «Tipperary» — along with lively floral still lifes, all from the 1920s, by Ivon Hitchens, Christopher Wood and William Nicholson, Britain's genius of light At Jonathan Boos, the centerpiece is «The Pigeons,» from 1948 - 49 by the Magic Realist Henry Koerner, which encompasses income inequality, childhood fear, racial strife and romance, all on a pink marble stair shown to be made of brick.

Concentrating on mass media imagery early on in her career, Vija Celmins painted scenes of war and disaster that reflected on her early childhood experiences.